1. Healthy Eating & Exercise: My Goal

2. Turn to your “Assessing My Eating Habits” and “My Physical Activity & Exercise” on pages 8 and 25.

3. You are going to use these activity sheets to help you set a goal and make a plan to eat healthy or exercise.

4. Planning Ahead 1.What is your healthy eating or exercise goal? 2.What will be the benefits of reaching your goal? 3.Why is this goal important to you? 4.What must you do to reach this goal? 5.How will you start? 6.Who can help you? 7.What could get in the way?

5. You will be using these questions to help you set your goal and make a healthy behavior plan. You are going to choose 1 healthy eating or 1 physical activity and exercise behavior to improve your health.

6. Turn to “Healthy Eating & Exercise: Getting Started” on page 26.

7. Question 1 What is your healthy eating or exercise goal? Write a statement that specifically states what you are going to work on. Remember, it’s OK to start with a small goal.

8. Question 2 What will be the benefits of reaching your goal? Think about what you will get from this behavior.

9. Question 3 Why is this goal important to you?

10. Question 4 What must you do to reach this goal? Write down the steps you need to take to reach your goal.

11. Question 5 How will you start?

12. Question 6 Who can help you?

13. Question 7 What could get in the way of reaching your goal? Think about any problems or barriers that might keep you from meeting your goal. Then think about what you will do to overcome each of these problems or barriers.